| Description |
xxvii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: the significance of extreme deviance / Erich Goode -- pt. 1. Extreme tattooing. Tattoos are like potato chips-- you can't have just one : the process of becoming and being a collector / Angus Vail. Flesh journeys : the radical body modification of neoprimitives / Michael Atkinson and Kevin Young. Personal account of a tattoo collector / Angus Vail -- pt. 2. Believing that one has been kidnapped by extraterrestrials. Alien attraction : the subculture of UFO contactees and abductees / Christopher D. Bader. Alien abduction as mythmaking / Stephanie Kelley-Romano. How do people come to believe they were abducted by aliens? / Susan A. Clancy -- pt. 3. Being hugely obese. NAAFA : attempting to neutralize the stigma of the hugely obese body / Debra Gimlin. The fat admirer / Erich Goode. Living in an extremely deviant body / "Sally" and "Diane" -- pt. 4. Believing in white supremacy. White supremacy as extreme deviance / Kathleen M. Blee. Interview with Matthew Hale / Russell K. Nieli. What we believe as white racists / Tom Metzger -- pt. 5. Having and endorsing adult-child sexual contact. Pedophiles and child molesters / Keith F. Durkin and Steven Hundersmarck. The world according to NAMBLA : accounting for deviance / Mary de Young. From victim to offender / "Dave". The boylove manifesto / "jay_h" -- pt. 6. Earth First! going to extremes to save the environment. Earth first! deviance inside and out / Rik Scarce. Strategic experimentation and stigmatization in Earth First! / Douglas Lloyd Bevington. I am a lowbagger / Mike Roselle -- pt. 7. Engaging in S&M sexual practices. The pleasure of pain / Marianne Apostolides. Sexual spanking / Rebecca F. Plante. The S&M experience / "Jackie" |
| Summary |
This reader is intended by editors Goode (State U. of New York at Stony Brook) and Vail (Willamette U.) to serve as a supplementary text in undergraduate courses in the sociology or psychology of deviance. The reader focuses on extreme or secondary deviance, those deviations that cause the group or society to stigmatize and isolate the normative violator. The reader is organized into seven section of three or four reading each, covering tattooing and body modification, belief in alien abduction, obesity, white supremacists, having and endorsing adult-child sexual contact, the environmentalist group Earth First!, and sexual sado-masochism. The readings combine traditional academic perspectives and, often, first-person accounts from the deviants themselves |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Deviant behavior.
|
|
Marginality, Social.
|
|
Social Isolation.
|
|
Paraphilic Disorders -- psychology.
|
|
Hallucinations -- psychology.
|
|
Tattooing -- psychology.
|
|
Racism -- psychology.
|
| Author |
Goode, Erich.
|
|
Vail, D. Angus.
|
| LC no. |
2007014506 |
| ISBN |
9781412937221 paperback |
|
1412937221 paperback |
|
